Sesquicentennial & Century Family Farms

Nine  Sesquicentennial  Farms

In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Esquesing Historical Society has made a list of the remaining farms in Halton Hills (Esquesing Township) which have belonged to the same family for at least a century and a half.  In some instances the family name has changed because the farm was passed down to a daughter of the family and subsequently assumed the surname of her husband. 

Background

The list of century farms from the 1967 Centennial list composed by the Halton Junior Farmers was our starting point but after discussions with several old time residents, surveys mailed to the families of interest and the use of the 1877 Halton Atlas and a 1916 advertising map it was discovered that the list of 20 farms should have been 30 farms. The updated list can be found in the Heritage Farms menu at the top of this page. In addition to the sesquicentennial farms, we have collected a list of new century farms that have belonged to the same family since 1917.  This list can also be found in the Heritage Farms menu above.

2017   Sesquicentennial   Farms:     (Photos below)

Family	Years	Location	Present Use	Present Owner
Brown 1826	191 Years	Lot 19 Conc.5, 5th Line	cash crop & sheep	Ted Brown
Brown 1826	191 Years	Lot 19 Conc.4, 4th Line	cash crop & Bruce Trail	Leone Brown
Brownridge 1819	198 Years	Lot 4 Conc.7, 7th Line	Murray Brownridge cash crops the farm	Sold to developers (2016)
Eccles/McClure 1843	174 Years	Lot 25,26 Conc.10, 10th Line	dairy farm	Bill & Stuart McClure
Fisher 1822	195 Years	Lot 9 Conc.5, 5th line	cash crop	David, John, Paul and Patricia Fisher
Harding 1858	151 Years	Lot 26 Conc.6, 6th Line	crops for alpaca farming	Joan Matheson
Lindsay 1854	163 Years	Lot 21, Conc.7, Trafalgar Rd.	cash crop	James Lindsay
Snyder/McArthur 1845	172 Years	Lot 32, Conc.3, 3rd Line	Ron McArthur farms the remaining 47 acres	Leroy McArthur
Stull 1838	189 Years	Lot 24,25, Conc.9, 8th Line	crops & livestock	Rick & Sally Stull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halton Hills (Esquesing Township)

          In November of 1966 the Halton Junior Farmers submitted to the local newspapers (e.g. Georgetown Herald and Milton Champion) a list of approximately eighty farms in Halton County of which twenty-one farms were in Esquesing Township (Halton Hills) that had been owned by the same family for at least a century. This was done for the 1967 Centennial celebration. The Esquesing Historical Society has furthered research on the century farms finding an additional nine family farms that should have been included in the list.   These farms are indicated by an asterisk and blue text.

 Family Surname     1967 Family Owner        Location

Appleyard	*Appleyard, Richard	Lot 25 Conc. 8, Trafalgar Rd.
Bessey 1800’s	Bessey, Wray H.	Lot 19 Conc 7, 6th Line
Brooks 1822	Brooks, Charles	Lot 3 Conc. 5, 5th Line
Brown, 1826	Brown, Fred J.	Lot 19 Conc 5, 5th Line
Brown, 1826	*Brown, Harold	Lot 19, Conc 4, 4th Line
Brown	McCullough, Marg	Lot 27, Conc. 4, #7 Hwy.
Brownridge 1819	Brownridge, Ward	Lot 4 Conc. 7, 7th Line
Davidson 1844	Davidson, Charles	Lot 31, Conc. 3, 2nd Line
Davidson 1844	*Davidson, Bert	Lot 31, Conc. 3, 3rd Line
Devereaux 1830	*Devereaux, John	Lot 18 Conc. 7, 17 Sideroad
Devereaux 1830	Devereaux, Norman	Lot 18 Conc. 7, Trafalgar Rd.
Eccles 1843	*McClure / Eccles	Lot 25, 26 Conc. 10, 10th Line
Fisher 1822	Fisher, William G.	Lot 9 Conc. 5, 5th Line
Gillies 1832	*Davis, Ron	Lot 15, Conc 4, !5 Sideroad
Harding 1866	Harding, Wilfred	Lot 26 Conc. 6, 6th Line
Hilts 1819	Hilts, Joseph Henry	Lot 32, Conc 9, 8th Line
Henderson 1844	Henderson, George	Lot 22 Conc. 7, Trafalgar Rd.
Lawson 1843	Lawson, Norman H.	Lot 1, Conc. 5, 4th Line
Lindsay 1854	Lindsay, Donald N.	Lot 21, Conc. 7, Trafalgar Rd.
McCallum 1823	McCallum, Finlay	Lot 7 Conc. 1, 1st Line
Robertson 1822	Robertson, Frank	Lot 14 Conc 3
Ross, H.L.	* Ross, Joe	Lot 17, Conc. 5, 17 Sideroad
Ruddell 1841	Ruddell, A.J.	Lot 9, Conc. 7, Trafalgar Rd.
Shortill 1835	Shorthill, Floyd	Lot 30, Conc. 8, 8th Line
Snyder 1845	*McArthur, Fred	Lot 32, Conc. 3
Sprowl 1856	Rachel Sprowl estate	Lot 18 Conc. 3
Starret 1859	Starret, W. Doug	Clayhill Rd. Lot 27 Conc. 10
Stull 1838	Campbell, Hugh	Lot 24, 25, Conc. 9, 8th Line
Swackhamer 1819	Swackhamer, Wallace	Lot 32, Conc.4, 3rd Line
Whaley 1828	Whaley, Mrs. Lena	Lot 1 Conc. 11